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Originally Posted by Starlight
Once a pepper plant wilts isn't it ruined? I thought I read that somewhere, never to let them wilt.
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Absolute nonsense, and I'm sure that I've told you that at least once before. Peppers wilt naturally - it's their defense against heat. They even seem to
like to wilt. A smart in-soil grower will use wilting (especially evening or morning) to know when the plant really would like a drink, and not water otherwise. A plant can have its leaved down around its knees, get a good drink, and an hour later look like nothing ever happened.
(After a while, you learn to read the plant so it doesn't have to wilt noticeably to know that its thirsty.)